Google has once again snubbed England's dragon-slaying patron saint, despite our threat back in 2005 to take our porn search queries elsewhere.
Indeed, while El Reg today proudly celebrates this most English of days, Google remains resolutely St George-free. We were going to email the search monolith to request the usual half- …

COMMENTS

SUN Branding

I applaud your pointing out the flaw with Google, but from my PC here all I can see on the Reg page is the SUN logo on a nice purple banner. Admittedly, I did see a quick flash of St Georges flag, but those buggers at SUN plonked themselves right on top of it :)

Oh dear, what a pity, never mind....

So St George's Day got missed again. So it was last there in 2002. At least St George's Day has had some recognition. On the 2002 Google logo, it was marked "St George's Day - UK", yet it's England that bothers about it. Us poor Scots have had no St Andrew's Day logos, nor even recognition by Google at all.

Google.co.ireland only?

Maybe I'm wrong but I'm sure that on St Patricks Day, Google was rife with Shamrocks and other such Irish paraphanalia. Yet on St Georges day there's not a red cross, dragon or knight in shining armour in sight.

The English always manage to celebrate the day to be Irish (more because it's a great reason to get bladdered than because they might be one 2000th Irish) but St George gets overlooked?

Is Google run by Paddy Power or vegans dispising the idea of a living creature being slaughtered?

St George's day

Errm...

Unlike St. Patrick & St. David - St. George is largely a mythological character and to confuse matters he is also the patron of Canada, Catalonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro, Portugal and Serbia. He was most likely an Arab (Palestinian or possibly Turkish) he never came to Britain and is not the original patron saint of England (he replaced St. Edmund around 1350). St Andrew was probably Greek.

I guess it is difficult to justify getting enthusiastic about someone so vague and who has little connection with any of "his" patronised countries.

At least The Irish and the Welsh have saints who came for these Islands (even if St Patrick was a Brython not a Gael)...

Do no evil?

Dragon loving freaks they are. I say we shave our heads and go up there to Google Mountain with flaming torches and show them what being English is all about... with a good football hooligan style kicking.

What St George?

All I can see up top on these pages is either the standard red or a flash of white and red covered up hastily by a Sun advert. Patron Saint days are not for big monolithic companies - they should be for the facist or drunk instead.

Who cares about St George anyway?

The English have pretty much got it sewn up in the UK anyway. They've been in control for the last few hundred years and they never let anyone forget about it. As for the casual, blatant racism that the English show towards their Scottish and Welsh neighbours- well, how about you just cut that out, eh? Then you can get a little bit more respect, and not until.

Muppets

Just shows .....

Well Gavin Morgan..

.. apparently you Welsh folk get announcements in English *and* Welsh at Paddington station on St. David's Day. Not that anyone would notice the difference as you usually can't hear what they're announcing anyway.

But yes. Jolly bad show chaps re: . St. 'Sun is having a big sale cos they're 25 years old' -'s Day hasn't got the same ring to it..

Racial discrimination

THIS IS WHAT I SENT DIRECTLY TO GOOGLE:-

Iam rather surprised at the lack of interest in St. Georges day, today, by your company. I note that you are pleased to acknowledge Ireland, Scotland and Wales but seem to ignore England and I consider this most unpatriotic.

I am NOT a rabid English Nationalist but I do love my country and gave 22 years of my life to it and to you in the Royal Air Force, prepared to die if necessary. Now, when my comrades and I have made the succession safe you, and your ilk, are unprepared to acknowledge our willingly given service, I doubt that you even wish to know about England. Be proud and wave St. Georges flag, even if he was a Turk he is OUR petron saint.